Soft and spicy molasses cookies

June 12, 1980

In New England before the Civil War, the first Tuesday of June was set aside as Muster or Training Day. The trainees were followed into the area by women and children carrying lunch baskets; one food being muster "gingerbread," actually a large, soft, and spicy molasses cookie. This recipe was sent to us by Charlotte Scripture of Concord, N.H.